Desc: V Was for Victory: With Budd Knapp, Fred Ashworth, Kermit Beahan, Johannes Blaskowitz. April-August 1945. Hitler had said: 'Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.' By 1945, Germany is beaten. Occupying armies uncover the staggering atrocities of Belsen, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.